Welcome to the Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland where you can find out more about our work. The LSCS projects focus on linking data over time to produce longitudinal research resources that inform a wide variety of disciplines.

The Digitising Scotland project will digitise vital events records (births, marriages and deaths) for people living in Scotland since 1855, allowing research access to individual level information on the Scottish population from 1855 onwards. View the Digitising Scotland website...

The SLS-DSU develops and supports the Scottish Longitudinal Study, a large-scale linkage study using data from administrative and statistical sources. The SLS follows 5.3% of the Scottish population from 1991 onwards. View the Scottish Longitudinal Study website...

SYLLS aimed to develop methods and software to produce synthetic datasets for use by researchers. Synthetic data are designed to look like the real data contained in the SLS, ONS LS and NILS, and to give similar results from statistical analyses. Because none of the records in the synthetic data correspond to real individuals synthetic data can be released with fewer access restrictions. View more... View more...